Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — Page 8

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PEECH OF HON. T. J. WOOD.

nd mining purposes, plows nd plowshares, crude and rein’d petroleum, powder,stoves, telegraph and barbed ence-wire, all kinds of water- . does, and many ot er articles. I regard this treaty as the beginning of a great trade nd we should accept it as a ’ >eginning, fullv believing that >oth the contracting parties vill soon hereafter demand a tew and enlarged treaty, admitting free the products of he farm. I favor commercial treaties vith all the South American tates because their trade leitimateJy belongs to us and mrs to them, as an American ndowment; and this treaty, f successful, will be followed >y others that will give us a dde trade with them. The ejection of this bill, in my udgment, would be tantamount to a declaration that ve do not want any, of the rade of other countries. It 7ould be, in substance, an orLer to foreign tradesmen to tay away from our comm erial centers and keep off of >ur business thoroughfares, nd the cherished policy of wo-thirds of the American >eople, of wider markets for he products of the farm, mills, ooms, and furnaces would reel ve a wounding thrust in the ery house of its declared riends. I will not refuse a treaty be •ause it excludes some of our surplus products and admits >thers. I would like all to be idmitted; but if 1 can not sell igricultural products and can -ell the products of our manifactories I would sell them, md vice versa. That would eem to be friendship and generosity to every industry in his country, which l would, vith open hands, build up for he general good of the commonwealth. Amicable trade relations with other countries is necessary; sooner or later we must seek the markets of other ountries. The country to day s burdened with overproduction. It demands relief by an intrammeled outlet to other markets

In nearly every department )f industry in this country there is greater production than consumption. It is a plethoric condition of business that rarely exists in any country. It demonstrates the fertility of our lands, the industry and economy of our people. it demonstrates th’e wealth of our mines and the climatic conditions essential to full and complete production. .It demonstrates to the world our abundance of capital, capability and energy of oui business men, who were willing to venture in the development of our natural resources, which have no equal in any other country. Endowed with richer resources than any other land on the globe why will we cease to produce more than we can consume? Why will we not sell our surplus bread and provisions to the millions barely subsisting to-day? Why wi Iwe not sell the surplus products of our looms, mills and furnaces in all countries having no manufactories? This people can not stop production now. They are too far into the business to back out, and they will go on. What are our agencies of production? During the last several years there-has been a large import of producing laborers, who /have located upon the rich lands of the great West, tilled the soil with care, and it yielded an immense surplus of the staple cereals. The young farmers every year leaving the homestead to open new farms, raise more than they consume. Inventive genius has in the last quarter of a century bro’t into use labor-saving machin ■?ry in a thousand forms, facil itatingand rapidly advancing the work of agriculture. The handiwork of the inventor in the cotton and woolen mills, in

he iron and steel industries, In the refineries, and other kind* of manufacture has • aused a revoulion in the ra pidity or all manufactured Droducha. All these, operat ing upon nature’s rich and onvenient resources, have iyen this plethoric condition, and I tell jou it is likely to'

continue, for this country is not go* Ing backward and it can not stand stiH. The cultivated farms will net cease to grow the golden grain; new farms will be added by the American boys, and the emigration of farmers from the old countries will not cease Cap-» ital is always restless and best Serves its master when in ceaseles activity, and it will turn the wheels of every manufacturing industry though it may be idle for a season. Tne great manufacturing plants of America can not long remain idle. The millions invested tn them will uot bo permit ed to rot and rust How will you stop this plethoric growth? Not, I trust, by telling man to quit work: not by stopping the plow, the reaping and threshing machines; not by closing down the mills and the factories.That would be business suicide. Will you order labor to cease, improvements to suspend, business to decline until the natural growth of the country comes up to the level of consuming its own productions? If so, how long must we wait? The prednetive capacity of the farms and the nianufa taring industries are far ahead of the consumptive power of the country. .What is the remedy? It is wider markets.— Sell everywhere. Make treaties advantageous treaties, and sell. Sell our machinery and manufactured goods in one country and the products of the farm in others, if necessary. Go out .to the world. Challenge En lan I in all her ways over the sea. Th sea is for America as much as it ■< for Englund If any law on the tatute book forbids this market so 'be surplus produ -ts <>f our labor, epeal die law or amend it to aid present conditions ather than preserve it to hamper the best energies of the country Remove trade restrictions, and invite ra l her than repel the trade of nations. Send away tne surplus to other markets and let the farmer’s plow turn the soil, let the reaper do th a utmost in gatheringthe haivest. Let the thoroughfares of trade bo crowded in the movement of cereal surplus. Letthe wheels of industry turn and send the manti factured products to countries where manufacturing is scarcely known and the end of stagnation in trade and plethora of business will ootae.

A fair commercial treaty between this country and the South American S ates would be the next movement of the treaty making power, in ease the pending treaty is conflrtnecl. Our country should acquire the major 1 arc of the South American trade on equitable terms What is the extent of this trade which other nations, more shrewd than our own continually oovet? Take the trade of Brazil, for example. Her trad.- with the United States, England and France aggregates about $1 ,0,000,000, of which the United States .ke $50,266,000. The United States . reives nearly onesnaif of the Brux lian export trade, yet Brazil recei a from the United States only sß.i : .>s-000, white England sends to Brazil goods valm-d at UGU, a d buys Brazilian products to the amoun. of $29,835-000. France sells in Brazil $15,657,00(1 and|takes fromj Brazil $29,216 000. Here la the fact, tnat our imp >rts from Brazil are nearly one-half or the total export of that country, and we sell there about one-ninth of the whole yalue of goods sent into that country. No country can prosper by such unequal commerce as our country has Jwith Brazil. We buy of Brazil over $<"0,000,000 and Brazil buys about eight and a half millions from us. Thisjtrade could be equalized bv a commercial treaty. The other South American states would follow the example of Brazil, and soon we would be master of the South American trade. The old counrries of the east—England, Francs, and Germany—do not per mlt a plethoric condition of trade -commodities at home. They load their merchant-ships and order them out to sea. It has just b( <-n officially annouu • ced that Germany has concluded a commercial treaty with/the Transvaal Republic. England was a competitor in this treaty, but Germany outdone her. I want fair treaties, not omgiving a foreign country advantages over us as the Spanish-American treaty does. By that treaty the United States takes about sixty millions of dollars’ worth of the sugar and tobacco products of Cuba and the Antilles, while our trade with them can not exceed fifteen millions; and our loss of revenue would amount to nearly forty millions, and our People would not get free sugar at all. Under this treaty free sugar coming into our ports would not ruie the price of sugar, bir the irn«* parted sugars from other countries paying (he duties would rule the price. Our Treasury would lose a laige revenue, and the consumers of sugdi' would get no advantage in a i lower mice of that article. I would not make sugar fiee. that step would be such a sacrifice of revenue tnat very little, if any, tax reduction could be made on other high tariff articles necessary to the comforts of life. I object to the repeal of the tariff on any one or a number of articles unless it be salt Coal, and lumber. The reduction should be general ;honghout ■ the list on the basis of true reform of the I customs laws. To make sugar free ! is to continue the high tax on wool* en, cotton, and iron and steel goods. I would treat all the inlustries alike.

It is said We have no merchant marine. I lament our weakness here, but if we encourage the trade of nation*, soon America will have a grand merchant marine that will be a. competitor of England and otirt.-’ countries. Every ot er civilized country sends away its surplus to ! other nations for barter and sale and thereby keep their work'ngmen i employed all through the year. “England sails her surplus wherever I

•he can, so does Germany, so does France. Even Mexico and Brazil are doing the same thing. Tl is country does not. She lags bck in in the wake of commercia progress with the world. Objection is tm de to this treaty because it abrogates the revenue laws. 1 do not waut free trade. We must have a tariff, she question is, Shall it be a bigtariff for tne purpose of protection, or a tariff for the purpose of revenue? How high shall the tariff be? I say ir should be high enough to bring to the public Treasury sufficient revenue. That is a pretty "high tariff. Our G ▼ >rment requires about $200,000,000 of re enue from the tariff. That requires a pr.tty high duty, and while it raises enough revenue it gives $200,000,000 protection to-tiome industries. Is that not enough protection? A revenue tariff is protection to the extent of the duty fixed. I would uot favor any treaty that would materially interere with there venue' bads.

Our country, acting upon the principle of national comity, should make a friendly power in Mexico, in whose territory there would be no enemy or neutral ground in the time of possible conflict between it and the strong nations of the east ever ready for war. The Monroe doctrines, adhered to by the United States- and the restless dissatisfaction withjthe Clayton Bulwer treaty are going to precipitate a crisis at no distant day, and a ciash of arms for mastery. In that time it is well for us if no foreign alliance be formed with Mexico. My friends, be not flattered into insensibilty as to this coming issue by our power and prestige. It is coming; I tell you ir is coming, and I beg you not to be idle in making complete defense on land and sea. Again shall we refuse this treaty and arrest our commanding power over c mtiguons'territory, which will resuU in the ultimate extension of rep• i blica n i nstitilli ona until al Ithe people of North America shall know one government and honor one flag? I cordially support this bill to carry into effect the Mexican treaty, believing that is an important step in the direction of the world’s commerce, which will bring employment to idle workmen, prosperity to the farmer, the mechanic, and the manufacturer.

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The city of Nankin, once the capital of China, has for centuries‘ucen famous to the ‘barbarians’ of the outer world for its porcelain V wer—a relic of the splem. dor of its ancient days before Peking usurped its dignity as the seat of the empire. The place is now io a great extent, a city ruins, audthe city proper has shrunk to one-fourth ot its former dimensions. The par. el tin t aver vms • buiil ';UHH early in the j't<e >t'r eeivu V j by tire or ter u die Emperor Ytn.glouh, and as a work of filial piety. It "was a monument, to the memory of bis mother, and he determined that, its beauty should as far outshine that of any similar memorial as the transcendant virtues of the parent, in her son’s eyes, surpassed those of the rest ot her ► sex. No expense was spared in us erection, and its total cost is estimated at more than three quarters of a million of our own money. Die work was commenced at noon on a certain day in 1413, and occupied nearly twenty years in its completion . The total height of tne porcelain tower was more than 200 feet, or r.bout equal to that of the monument of Lond m, and it was faced from top >o bottom with the finest porcelain, glazed and colored. It consisted of nine s’ories, surmounted by a spire, on the summit of which was a ball of brass richly g'lt. From this ball eight iron chains extended to as many projecting p huts of the roof, and from eaoh <hain vss suspended a bell, which hung over tiie face of tower. The same arrangement was cirried out in {every s ory. Tnese bells added much to the graceful appearance of the tower breaking its otherwise formal and monotonous ou’line R >and the outer face of I cavil s o - \y wer- -ev.ral a. enures for j lan erus, and when these were all iilumin»t<d, we are told, in the magniliuqiifi.t lamruage of the Chinese ids torians, that ‘their light illuminated the entire heavens, shining into the hearts

of men, and eternally removing human misery!’ It is not difficult to imagine, however, that the appearance of' the tower on such an occasion must have been beautiful in the extreme. On the I* op of tower were placed two large I brazen vessels and a bowl, which to« gether contained various costly articles, | ' iu the nature of an offering and charm I t»a*ertevil influences. Among thes i were leveral pears of various colors, j each : upposeu to posset s miraculous proj ercies, together with other precious i

stones and a quanity of gold and silver. In this connection, designed to represent the best tieasi.res of the state, were •Iso placed a box of tea, some pieces of •ilk, and copies of some ancient Chinese writings Ti e tower was demolish*a by he Taeping reb Is in 18 4. I —— Sure of One Point Anyh >w.— fiiat rem man us of a Madison youngster who rather demurred to his mothci’s Statement that Jesus was a Jew ibe testimon coming in too .-trong to .-ta. d Up against he yielded tne p iui, but with a triumphant air declared: ‘W. it, I.dwu’t care it Jesus was a Jew, Goi’s a Gentile, anyhow.’— Madison Courier-

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